09-08-2018, 10:25 PM
Remember Gina Carano? She's back. It's the post-apocalypse - ice caps melted, air is unbreathable (except for horses, or at least for Gina's horse, the only animal in the film), water is poisoned unless you have these mysterious water purification tabs (like who makes those?), and 'Murica is transformed back into the old west. Cars are illegal so the outlaws drive cars - Mad Max cars no less. Gina is a bounty hunter capturing these car driving baddies. Everyone needs to wear masks filtered with silver or they get black lung. Not a bad premise, the gas masks, only everyone has to de-mask to act. There's an early fight where the gas masks are an issue that was borderline original. An extra point for the dandao-wielding villain (looks like a hanwei dao) but he doesn't use it with any skill and is easily defeated with a shovel.
This is really all about Gina. It's a Gina vehicle. And she almost carries it. She almost rises above this B-genre post-apocalypse cliche. She's still gorgeous even in an unglamourous role. Those eyes - still so hawt. She can sell a fight but there's not enough hand-to-hand, mostly gunfights. She's no skinny actress throwing limp-wristed punches. She's a full-bodied woman, buxom, accentuated by a bodice. She even acts a little bit, more than most actors in fllms of this ilk (I know, not saying much, but to her credit). But the dialog, oh man, so stilted, so done - Streep couldn't sell those lines. And the story...dumb, meandering, predictable. The only redemption is it fully empowers Gina - there's no forced romance at all.
Not recommended unless you are a hardcore Gina fan like me.
This is really all about Gina. It's a Gina vehicle. And she almost carries it. She almost rises above this B-genre post-apocalypse cliche. She's still gorgeous even in an unglamourous role. Those eyes - still so hawt. She can sell a fight but there's not enough hand-to-hand, mostly gunfights. She's no skinny actress throwing limp-wristed punches. She's a full-bodied woman, buxom, accentuated by a bodice. She even acts a little bit, more than most actors in fllms of this ilk (I know, not saying much, but to her credit). But the dialog, oh man, so stilted, so done - Streep couldn't sell those lines. And the story...dumb, meandering, predictable. The only redemption is it fully empowers Gina - there's no forced romance at all.
Not recommended unless you are a hardcore Gina fan like me.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse